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Creator Chosen Casting is when the casting of an adaptation is influenced by the creator of the work being adapted. A director casting an actor for a role is not an example.
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/StevenSpielberg cast Creator/MarkRylance having worked with him on ''Film/BridgeOfSpies''.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The film had to be released under the Creator/AmblinEntertainment name instead of the Creator/DreamWorks name due to a mandate from then-Creator/DreamWorksAnimation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg that was set up where the name [=DreamWorks=] could not be used on a live-action family film, possibly to avoid confusion.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The film had to be released under the Creator/AmblinEntertainment name instead of the Creator/DreamWorks Creator/DreamWorksSKG name due to a mandate from then-Creator/DreamWorksAnimation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg that was set up where the name [=DreamWorks=] could not be used on a live-action family film, possibly to avoid confusion.
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** Creator/DreamWorks aquired the rights in 2011, with Kennedy and Marshall producing and Melissa Matheson writing the script. Creator/StevenSpielberg came aboard as director in April 2014. Principal photography began in March 2015 and concluded in June of that year. It was finally released in 2016.
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** Creator/DreamWorks aquired Creator/DreamWorksSKG acquired the rights in 2011, with Kennedy and Marshall producing and Melissa Matheson writing the script. Creator/StevenSpielberg came aboard as director in April 2014. Principal photography began in March 2015 and concluded in June of that year. It was finally released in 2016.
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* ActingForTwo: Creator/DonHenderson voices Bloodbottler, Fleshlumpeater, and the Sergeant.
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Not sure that Cannon was involved in The BFG '89, you must have gathered that information from a movie fanon wiki
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* NoExportForYou: Despite being made in widescreen, this film was only released in [[Creator/TheCannonGroup Cannon Cinemas]] in the United Kingdom, running from November 1987 until April 1988. The rest of the world got it as a direct-to-video release.
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* NoExportForYou: Despite being made in widescreen, this The film was only released in [[Creator/TheCannonGroup Cannon Cinemas]] debuted on ITV in the United Kingdom, running from November 1987 until April 1988. Kingdom on Christmas Day 1989. The rest of the world got it as a direct-to-video release.release or on The Disney Channel.
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Spelling correction.
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** Creator/KevinMeaney was supposed to play a role in the movie. His declining health, which lead to his fatal heart attack in October of 2016, may have been why he turned down the film.
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** Creator/KevinMeaney was supposed to play a role in the movie. His declining health, which lead led to his fatal heart attack in October of 2016, may have been why he turned down the film.
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Misuse. Made back its budget.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Like many a Creator/RoaldDahl adaptation before it sadly, including Disney's other Dahl adaptation from Spielberg's contemporary Creator/TimBurton 20 years prior, which was ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''. The film was made on a $140 million budget, yet only made $23.4 million on its opening weekend, making it perhaps the biggest bomb of Steven Spielberg's entire career, after ''Film/NineteenFortyOne''. What couldn't have helped was not only it opening in the midst of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[='=]s red-hot winning streak (something Disney was '''far''' more focused on than ''The BFG''), but also Spielberg's studio having a falling out with Disney executives during production [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielbergs-dreamworks-split-disney-819594 over their increased focus on tentpole films]], and paddling back to Creator/{{Universal}} after having snubbed them for Disney six years before. The box office failure of this movie may have more or less vindicated his decision.[[note]]Perhaps the most tragic part about the movie is that before this film, Spielberg had never actually directed a movie Disney helped produce. This may end up being his only directorial effort with them for the foreseeable future, though ''Film/WestSideStory2021'' wound up under their ownership due to their purchase of [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Fox]].[[/note]]
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Like many a Creator/RoaldDahl adaptation before it sadly, including Disney's other Dahl adaptation from Spielberg's contemporary Creator/TimBurton 20 years prior, which was ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''. The film was made on a $140 million budget, yet only made $23.4 million on its opening weekend, making it perhaps the biggest bomb of Steven Spielberg's entire career, after ''Film/NineteenFortyOne''. What couldn't have helped was not only it opening in the midst of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[='=]s red-hot winning streak (something Disney was '''far''' more focused on than ''The BFG''), but also Spielberg's studio having a falling out with Disney executives during production [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielbergs-dreamworks-split-disney-819594 over their increased focus on tentpole films]], and paddling back to Creator/{{Universal}} after having snubbed them for Disney six years before. The box office failure of this movie may have more or less vindicated his decision.[[note]]Perhaps the most tragic part about the movie is that before this film, Spielberg had never actually directed a movie Disney helped produce. This may end up being his only directorial effort with them for the foreseeable future, though his adaptation of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' wound up under their ownership due to their purchase of [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Fox]].[[/note]]
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Like many a Creator/RoaldDahl adaptation before it sadly, including Disney's other Dahl adaptation from Spielberg's contemporary Creator/TimBurton 20 years prior, which was ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''. The film was made on a $140 million budget, yet only made $23.4 million on its opening weekend, making it perhaps the biggest bomb of Steven Spielberg's entire career, after ''Film/NineteenFortyOne''. What couldn't have helped was not only it opening in the midst of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory''[='=]s red-hot winning streak (something Disney was '''far''' more focused on than ''The BFG''), but also Spielberg's studio having a falling out with Disney executives during production [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielbergs-dreamworks-split-disney-819594 over their increased focus on tentpole films]], and paddling back to Creator/{{Universal}} after having snubbed them for Disney six years before. The box office failure of this movie may have more or less vindicated his decision.[[note]]Perhaps the most tragic part about the movie is that before this film, Spielberg had never actually directed a movie Disney helped produce. This may end up being his only directorial effort with them for the foreseeable future, though his adaptation of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' ''Film/WestSideStory2021'' wound up under their ownership due to their purchase of [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios Fox]].[[/note]][[/note]]
* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/StevenSpielberg cast Creator/MarkRylance having worked with him on ''Film/BridgeOfSpies''.
* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/StevenSpielberg cast Creator/MarkRylance having worked with him on ''Film/BridgeOfSpies''.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell:
** Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy began development in 1991 at Creator/ParamountPictures. Husband and wife screenwriters Robin Swicord and Nicholas Kazan wrote a screenplay in 1998, with Creator/RobinWilliams in negotiations for the title role. Williams attended a read-through, which according to Michael Siegel was "surprisingly disappointing", as Williams' trademark improvisational style clashed with the BFG's unique language.
** By 2001, the script had been rewritten by Gwyn Lurie, and was greeted with positive feedback from the estate of Creator/RoaldDahl. Creator/TerryJones and Creator/EdSolomon also attempted drafts. With no progress being made Paramount subsequently lost the film rights and they reverted to the Dahl estate.
** Creator/DreamWorks aquired the rights in 2011, with Kennedy and Marshall producing and Melissa Matheson writing the script. Creator/StevenSpielberg came aboard as director in April 2014. Principal photography began in March 2015 and concluded in June of that year. It was finally released in 2016.
** Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy began development in 1991 at Creator/ParamountPictures. Husband and wife screenwriters Robin Swicord and Nicholas Kazan wrote a screenplay in 1998, with Creator/RobinWilliams in negotiations for the title role. Williams attended a read-through, which according to Michael Siegel was "surprisingly disappointing", as Williams' trademark improvisational style clashed with the BFG's unique language.
** By 2001, the script had been rewritten by Gwyn Lurie, and was greeted with positive feedback from the estate of Creator/RoaldDahl. Creator/TerryJones and Creator/EdSolomon also attempted drafts. With no progress being made Paramount subsequently lost the film rights and they reverted to the Dahl estate.
** Creator/DreamWorks aquired the rights in 2011, with Kennedy and Marshall producing and Melissa Matheson writing the script. Creator/StevenSpielberg came aboard as director in April 2014. Principal photography began in March 2015 and concluded in June of that year. It was finally released in 2016.
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** When the film was first greenlit, Creator/RobinWilliams was considered to play the titular character.
** Kevin Meaney was supposed to play a role in the movie. His declining health, which lead to his fatal heart attack in October of 2016, may have been why he turned down the film.
** Kevin Meaney was supposed to play a role in the movie. His declining health, which lead to his fatal heart attack in October of 2016, may have been why he turned down the film.
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** When the film was first greenlit, Creator/RobinWilliams was considered to play the titular character.
** Kevin MeaneyCreator/KevinMeaney was supposed to play a role in the movie. His declining health, which lead to his fatal heart attack in October of 2016, may have been why he turned down the film.
** Kevin Meaney
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* ApprovalOfGod: This was the only film adaptation of one of Roald Dahl’s books that he actually enjoyed.
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* ApprovalOfGod: This was the only film adaptation of one of Roald Dahl’s books that he actually enjoyed.enjoyed, even supporting the crew during production of the film and applauding the film during the credits at a screening.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sophie was originally going to have the long blonde hair as illustrated by Quentin Blake in the book but after seeing a picture of the real Sophie Dahl, she was given the short red hair in homage of her which Dahl also approved of.
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* DiedDuringProduction: In November 2015, Melissa Mathison died of cancer, making this film her last work as a screenwriter.
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* DiedDuringProduction: In November 2015, Melissa Mathison died of neuroendocrine cancer, making this film her last work as a screenwriter.
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* PosthumousCredit: Melissa Mathison finished writing the script before dying of cancer in 2015. She's still given a credit for her work.
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* PosthumousCredit: Melissa Mathison finished writing the script before dying of cancer in 2015.her November 2015 death. She's still given a credit for her work.
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* DiedDuringProduction: In November 2015, Melissa Mathison died of cancer, making this film her last work as a screenwriter.
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* PosthumousCredit: Melissa Mathison is given a credit since she finished writing the script before her 2015 death.
